» honest to god celebrity sightings in the past week: maury povich, at work [he is an alumnus of penn and was visiting campus]; jay mccarroll, 12th & locust after walking home from karaoke.

» congrats to jt and helen on getting married… again. kind of. the reception was fantastic! the song selection — incredible! the sunday morning hangover — uncalled for!

I’m compiling a list of EMP presentations here. If you find more papers, please add them to the list! It would be awesome if we could have a pretty comprehensive selection.

purchased, from easy street records in beautiful downtown seattle:

pitchblende/eggs 7″
the warmers “thin air” 7″
the dambuilders/sf seals “inside dave’s garage volume 5″ 7″
duck hunt 7″
pissed jeans “night minutes” 7″

all of these, with the exception of the pissed jeans single, were purchased for 99 cents.

Seems like Mahogany are busy these days — a new record forthcoming and now, a video. If you’re not up to anything tonight, be a part of it!

this is adam c - man man’s web site man, video man, general art man, and so on and so forth. i am currently shooting a new video - not a man man one, but something for another group of quality folk. it would be great to have anyone ages 18-25 to attend on the eve of TUES. MAY 2nd for extras.

the video is for the band MAHOGANY and is being shot in Philadelphia. we look forward to meeting you at the shoot. feel free to bring male and female friends your age, as long as they under age 25 and the guys don’t have massive beards or staches… we’re trying to get over 200 people to participate. here is the full hot order:

Tuesday, May 2nd
6:30 - 11:30 pm
Gershman Y Building, First Floor Gymnasium
401 S. Broad St. (corner of Broad and Pine, downtown Philadelphia)

» I am *never* flying again. You think I’m joking but I’m absolutely serious. Not only was my 6 hour non-stop flight to Seattle non-stop turbulence, my return flight to Philadelphia included an _emergency landing_ in Minneapolis. You know when you spend enough time in the ocean you can feel the waves long after swimming? As I drifted off to sleep yesterday afternoon, I still felt the shaking of the plane. Thinking about how close I was to potential danger is why I’m downright jittery today.

» On that note, why is one of the most gorgeous and friendliest cities I’ve visited so far away? And why do tourists from other countries visit the shithole that is the East coast? Seriously, they need to visit other parts of the country.

» Speaking of tourism, I totally visited the Space Needle. Afterwards, I napped on its manicured lawn.

» Golden Singha rules. Thank you for feeding me.

» Seattles Best Karaoke: the only reason you suck is because you totally scammed us! However, your book is awesome, so I’ll temporarily overlook that.

» I saw papers by the following folks: Peter Doyle, Drew Daniel, Josh Langhoff, Maura Johnston, Brian Goedde, Kandia Crazyhorse, Sara Jaffe, Sara Marcus, Kara Jesella/Marisa Meltzer and Daphne Carr. Brilliant, all of them. I missed a slew f of papers due to napping, Space Needling, record shopping, eating and finishing up the revisions on my own paper.

» I can’t believe how well-received my paper was, especially since it went up against Greil Marcus and ELO. Thanks to my friends who attended as well as the wonderful folks I met afterwards. I am still shocked by the support and kind words. Thank you — it means so much to me.